provides compelling evidence that companies are increasingly using dark money nonprofits and trade associations to advocate for policies too controversial for the companies to support publicly, while also conveniently omitting their involvement

Among the solutions listed by the UCS report is the rulemaking where Public Citizen has been leading the charge since 2011: A rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission that would require publicly traded companies to disclose information to shareholders on their political spending..

***That would have their panties in a bunch. People are beginning to look more closely and it should not require a Senate investigation for stock holders to know where the money goes. In the last few months Monsanto and other Big Ag are seeing people divest.